Wireshark · Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 9996] IPv6 Next Header is Unknown yet Wireshark tries parsing an IPv6 Extensio

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Anish Bhatt changed bug 9996

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Comment # 11 on bug 9996 from Anish Bhatt

(In reply to comment #10)
> (In reply to comment #9)
> > From code (packet-ipv6.c)
> > 
> >         switch (nxt) {
> > [...]
> >         default:
> >             /* Since we did not recognize this IPv6 option, check
> >              * whether it is a known protocol. If not, then it
> >              * is an unknown IPv6 option
> >              */
> 
> Assuming this talks about IPv6 extension headers and not about IPv6 options,
> why would we assume an unknown next protocol is an unknown IPv6 extension
> header?

Boaz, this is just a feature of code right now, where an unknown next is
assumed to be an unknown header. I don't know the initial reasoning for this,
but if you can explain a more correct approach to this, I could fix this for
you.

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